AAR’s Hamberger: Additional rail regulations could hinder industry’s economic impact

Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protectionWASHINGTON June 13, 2016 The Association of American Railroads (AAR) released today its second "State of the Industry Report" of 2016, featuring new research from Towson University's Regional Economic Studies Institute (RESI) that finds spending by the seven largest U.S. railroads created $274 billion in economic activity, generated nearly $33 billion in state and federal tax revenues and supported nearly 1.5 million jobs nationally in 2014 alon